by John Rowe Townsend · Puffin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140316261
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«Dan Alone» is the children's and young adult novel by John Rowe Townsend, published by Puffin in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Dan, an eleven-year-old boy, has been left by his mother with some relatives; he flees that situation and, after a series of adventures with a peculiar family, finds the people who will form the home he always dreamed of. A story about the search for identity and the value of family bonds.
The work was originally published in 1983 by Kestrel Books; this Puffin edition is from 1985. The text is contemporary young adult fiction.
Aimed at children and young adult readers, especially those looking for stories about family and a sense of belonging.
John Rowe Townsend was a British children's writer and children's literature scholar. His best-known children's novel is The Intruder, which won a 1971 Edgar Award. His best-known academic work is a reference series, Written for Children: An Outline of English Children's Literature (1965), the definitive work of its time on the subject. It was greatly expanded for the first revised edition as Written for Children: An Outline of English-language Children's Literature (1974) and updated for its 2nd to 4th revised editions in 1983, 1987, and 1990 – the last, "A survey of imaginative writing, including poetry and picture books, accompanied by a bibliography of works on children's literature and illustrations from many of the classics of children's literature through 1989.".
